Looking For Game
First off, there will be no comics Friday or Monday, as I will be attending Dragon*Con over the holiday weekend. Normal updates will resume Wednesday the 4th.
Now. It’s been a few months since I last shook off WoW, and that MMO itch is creeping back up on me. Soon, I will be questing again. But the question is, which MMO?
- World of Warcraft is always there. I’ve got all the expansions. A few max level characters. Some near max level. But for once, I have no friends in the game. For once it does not have the advantage of being the game I can play with people I know.
- Star Wars: The Old Republic is another game that I really enjoyed. BioWare storytelling + WoW gameplay + Star Wars setting is something I’m pretty sure I asked a genie for at some point. It’s free-to-play now, but the free-to-play restrictions make playing without a subscription really feel like being a second class player. Which I could accept if I could play as a Jawa or Ugnaught.
- Neverwinter could be nice. Content creation sounds pretty boss. It’s new, it’s free. It has playable drow though, so I’ll be wading in a sea of scimitar wielding rangers.
- Rift I know this game has big elemental invasions, but that’s about the extent of my knowledge. I have a disk copy of it they gave away at PAX East last year, and have been a little curious.
- Tera I hear Tera’s combat is pretty great. That is almost all I have heard about it.
- Guild Wars 2 is often billed by its fans as the savior of the MMO player from subscriptions and crappy F2P microtransactions. However, I don’t own it, so I would need to drop the $60 to pick it up.
- Star Trek Online lets me be a starship captain. It’s free, and I get to be captain of a starship.
- Have any other suggestions? Throw ’em in the comments!
I’ve put up a poll over to the right. Throw it a vote, and feel free to elaborate on why your game rules and other games drool in the comments.
Nothing current in the MMO stream seems to appeal to me, but I’m keeping an eye out on Wildstar and the Elder Scrolls Online, coming out soon.
As a possible option, Defiance is another one out there. $10 for the game, no sub
THIS INJUSTICE WILL NOT STAND! You belong on Tyrian soil! WoW is dead! Long live Guild Wars 2!
I brought GW2 at launch, it is FUN, but for some reason or another i stopped playing. almost a year latter, last week I picked it up again and the game has maturated a bit, it has a lot of cool quality-of-life features and I am enjoying it
in the time between i stopped playing GW2 and started playing again i tried a few of the games you mention and i would really recomend you to try STO, its good! the ground combat is crap but oh the space combat is goood, it really makes you feel like a starship captain and it’s free! I also has content creation like Neverwinter (i think is made by the same guys)
Here’s info for you about Rift:
Rift plays in a similar style to WoW. You will feel somewhat familiar with it if you have played WoW or another game with that playstyle (which you obviously have!) However, there are many differences that will start showing up as you get farther into the game (some shared by some of the other games mentioned.)
First, Rift does shared objective credit (tag a monster, you get xp and stuff.) Second, Rift features a mentor system if you have high level friends who want to play at your level (although with no penalty for the higher level to your xp, most people ignore it for friend leveling. It does get used in some other situations.) Rift is FTP now, and here is what you don’t get from a free download; more than 3 bag slots, expansion souls, selling on the AH, some initial chat functions, cosmetics that are for sale on the store. Other differences: Talents are multi-layered (trees, plus roots, and hybrid builds being viable more frequently as a goal from the dev team.), Instant adventures (mini-quest group content that gives bonus xp and reputation*notoriety*, tons of zone events *the invasions you mentioned*, more varied mechanics *less don’t stand in fire, more stuff to purge/cleave/cc/interrupt in pve*, no faction restrictions *pve, some parts of pvp*, artifacts *little shiny balls of world exploring goodness, with cosmetic rewards*, support classes *buff/debuff and sometimes healing*, optional server-crossing adventures *WoW is moving toward mandatory, Rift is you decide to join a group doing something and move to another server temporarily*, and a slew of other things that would make this far too long.
Whichever game you end up playing, have fun! That is, after all, the point!
Neverwinter turned out better than I expected, quite enjoyable actually. Guild Wars is good as well. Still playing WoW but I understand people quitting can make it boring for ya. When Swtor went FTP and added all those restrictions I decided to stop playing, seem to be going downhill from there. Couldn’t get into Tera, never played Rift or Star Trek Online. I’m eagerly anticipating Elder Scrolls: Online however.
Another one to try is “The Secret World”. It’s a horror, investigator style. Good story telling, nice refreshing combat system. But, like so many, the end game is very wow like. Not that, that is a negative thing.